Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Biography Project: Research and Class PresentationAdd BookmarkDescription: Classroom biography study offers high-interest reading with a purpose, as students begin with inquiry and research, summarize and organize their information, and prepare oral presentations to share with the class.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 6,7,8

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Heroes Around UsAdd BookmarkDescription: Students select, read about, and report on a hero and then identify how their hero matches certain criteria and characteristics. Hero reports are then compiled into a class book.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 6,7,8

Subject: Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Women's Suffrage: Why the West First?Add BookmarkDescription: In this EDSITEment lesson, students compile information to examine hypotheses explaining why the first nine states to grant full voting rights for women were located in the West. The take a stand, supported by historical evidence, as to whether or not a single theory can explain why the Western states were the first to grant full voting rights to women.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 6,7,8

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Today is World Hello Day!Add BookmarkDescription: Students study a letter written by a famous author to determine purpose, and words and phrases that make the letter meaningful. They can use the Letter Generator to write their own letter promoting peace.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Myth and Truth: The First Thanksgiving Add BookmarkDescription: By exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the pilgrims, and the '' First Thanksgiving,'' this lesson asks students to think critically about commonly believed myths regarding the Wampanoag Indians in colonial America.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 6,7,8

Subject: Language Arts,MathematicsTitle: Numbers and LanguageAdd BookmarkDescription: In this five-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on the role of numbers and language in real-world situations. Students discuss, describe, read, and write about numbers they find in familiar real-world situations. An emphasis on using components of language helps students build a broader vocabulary of numbers than the traditional symbolic representation of numbers.Thinkfinity Partner: IlluminationsGrade Span: K,PreK,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Subject: Language Arts,MathematicsTitle: Airport NumbersAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on the role of numbers and language in real-world situations. These activities use an airport theme to investigate numbers. Students are encouraged to relate the numbers to familiar situations. For example, they use the dimensions of the classroom to describe an airplane.Thinkfinity Partner: IlluminationsGrade Span: 6,7,8

Subject: Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the ''New Colossus'' to AmericaAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students learn about the effort to convince a skeptical American public to contribute to the effort to erect a pedestal and to bring the Statue of Liberty to New York. The activities in this lesson guide students through an investigation of primary historical documents and an analysis of the poem The New Colossus, written by the nineteenth-century poet Emma Lazarus.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 6,7,8